Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pair of Harvard students, engaging in a face slapping marathon seeking to wrest the honors from Moscow University in Russia, is a challenge to the common sense of taxpayers to seriously question mounting school costs in America. We here find proof that our school curricula and sillp practices, fostered and promoted under the guise of higher education, is a curious alloy of opposites--a little blending of common sense with a wild hysterical foolishness, promoted or sanctioned by the kaisers of "advanced" education...
...Master; Winthrop; Freshman cross-country and track team; Varsity cross-country and track team; Associate Mgr., Varsity track team, BAA Marathon; Varsity Club; Philatelic Society, President; House baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, track...
...tired undergraduates slapped their last slaps at 10 a.m. yesterday morning, after successfully completing their 48-hour marathon and pocketing a hard-earned $128. They were Oakleigh B. Thorne '54 and his roommate. Richard Mortimer '54, both of Leverett House and New York City...
Hence the claim to a world record reported in Boston newspapers was denied strenuously by Mortimer and Thorne last night. They attributed the statement to an over-sealous publicity man and then began a new marathon, sleeping instead of slapping...
...Leverett House roommates were still slapping each other silly but weakening fast in a 48-hour marathon for a $128 stake, when the CRIMSON went to press last night...